Identity
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U of W Rocky Cree Language Project launches app, teachers’ guide
The language one speaks every day, like breathing, is easy to leave unexamined. But as many Indigenous educators, activists and artists point out, languages, and especially regional dialects, carry important, geographically specific cultural and historic context.
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Weaving Métis stories through song
Six years ago, during a 10,000-kilometre research trip across the M.tis homeland, Dr. Suzanne Steele, a M.tis librettist, poet and scholar, came across a historical love affair that would define her artistic life for the next several years.
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‘We want to hear your stories’
Kathleen Gallagher, a Winnipeg-based actor, producer and screenwriter, understands the challenges women face in her industry. As president of the OurToba Film Network, she is creating a space for women, non-binary and gender-diverse filmmakers in Manitoba to meet, create and gain skills.
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With liberty and kickflips for all
Winnipeg skaters have recently found themselves at a sort of moral crossroads. Over the past few years, local skateboarders have accused The Edge Skatepark, located in the Youth for Christ (YFC) Activity Centre on King Street, of discriminatory hiring practices and other non-inclusive measures.
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Lunch lecture highlights research on women in the workforce
Gender-based wage disparities are a widely discussed topic, but popular discourse often fails to capture the evolving nature of their causes.
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Finding comfort in inked skin
Ky Quiring sits on the cream-coloured tattoo bed in their workspace. Their cowboy boot-clad feet dangle over the edge as they point out the deer antlers hanging on the wall and the preserved duck wings in a frame.
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Breaking down barriers to trans healthcare
“On a scale from zero to 10, where zero is being a woman and 10 is being a man, how much do you feel like a man?”
This may sound like a question ripped from the pages of a teen magazine or an online quiz, but, until recently, it was one of the first questions encountered by many patients of the Trans Health Klinic, the only dedicated provider of transition-related healthcare in Manitoba for patients over the age of 14.
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Joy in discovery
Sipping a tequila soda at the Times Change(d) on Friday night, I asked my partner, “If you were the only person in the world, would you still have a gender?” I asked him partly to fill time, partly to try and explore my own fluctuating, evolving sense of gender identity.
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Celebrating Jewish Brill-iance
If Neil Diamond, Carole King, Paul Simon and Phil Spector were all in one building for an evening, the event would almost certainly be standing-room only. That is, if the building were a concert venue. But the illustrious artists listed above did coexist in the same space for years with each other.
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On the darker, snarky side of life
In a city awash with craft fairs and flea markets, someone new is trying something a little different.
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Boundless creativity in Winnipeg
In the words of famous American author Steven Pressfield: "Creative work is a gift to the world and every being in it. Don’t cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you’ve got.”
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1C03 exhibit explores spiritualism, ghosts, pandemics
A spectre is haunting Centennial Hall.
The Undead Archive: 100 Years of Photographing Ghosts, a multi-site exhibition curated by University of Winnipeg art-history professor Dr. Serena Keshavjee, opens in Gallery 1C03 on Sept. 7.
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Not all sunshine and rainbows
On Aug. 29, the Canadian government issued a travel advisory for 2SLGBTQI+ Canadians entering the United States. The move comes in response to a slew of recent anti-2SLGBTQIA+ state legislation across the US. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, at least 496 anti-LGBTQ bills have been introduced in state legislatures in 2023 alone.
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City briefs
Transgender Day of Visibility// New leader for Manitoba Green Party// Pitching a new way to fill potholes// 2023 city budget passes// Asylum seekers and irregular crossings// Machines dispensing harm-reduction supplies
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Global soul supremacy
The phrase “soul supreme” may conjure imagery of beehive hairdos and a certain doe-eyed songstress from Detroit.
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Tough talk at tea
Sitting down with family for dinner or coffee can often lead to awkward conversations.
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Before my obituary
As the family’s resident copy editor, I was tasked with proofreading my grandfather’s obituary before publication.
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Shutting down hate on campus
Earlier this month, professor Joanne Boucher gave a talk at the University of Winnipeg (U of W) provocatively titled “The Commodification of the Body: The Case of Transgender Identities.”
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Jewish crime
Sitting in his office in Centennial Hall, Alex Tepperman talks about his upcoming book on Jewish crime.
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City briefs
Death records for residential-school children// True North proposal for Portage Place// Renaming three Winnipeg streets// HSC to open minor-treatment clinic// ntroduction of Addiction Services Act// Release of 2022 fatal overdose data